My Honest Poem

My Honest Poem
Jess Fiebig
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Paperback
h210 x 148mm - 112pg
13 Aug 2020 NZ
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9781869409241
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My Honest Poem is a moving and powerful poetry collection that follows recovery from a life fractured by family violence and addiction. It is a coming-of-age story of a young New Zealand woman rebuilding strength and hope in the spaces left by trauma.at six, my mother's boyfriendforced his fat hairy handinside my heart-shaped facefor eating too many Fruit Burstswe bought a tube of them at BPwrapped individually in pastel wax paperswhich littered the backseatlike sweet-smelling confettihis hand tastedof salta metallic tang of rustthe hot edge of petrolfrom the pump still lingeringon his fingers
'These poems are undeniably personal and often deeply painful: childhood neglect, abuse, alcoholism, physical hurt, depression and self-harm are their subject matter. But - through linguistic skill and sheer intelligence - Fiebig crafts a lyrical beauty from unpromising material. You finish reading her work feeling uplifted by the writer's courage and honesty.' - Fiona Farrell
Jess Fiebig is a Christchurch-based poet whose work has featured in Best New Zealand Poems 2018, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 and 2019, Landfall, Turbine, Kapohau and takahe. She was runner-up in the 2019 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize.

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